Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers · Arkansas

Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR

Little Rock, AR · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR: 3.1 TCR = 139% of Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR safety composite

Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−5.1

2017→2019

Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR injury rate improved

Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR's TCR fell 5.1 from 7.1 in 2017 to 2.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Little Rock, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 139% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P47
  • PHOTO ACE PAPER PRODUCTS, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ACE PAPER PRODUCTS, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR averages 3.1 TCR (139% of the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR TCR series: 2017=7.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=2 · BLS 2.2

Where Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR falls in its industry

290 Bags, paper and disposable pla establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR (44 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR
Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR (44 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR has fewer employees than the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2019 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.1 7.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · AR · Little Rock

290 Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 446 employers in Little Rock, AR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR ACE PAPER PRODUCTS, INC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veritiv Operating Company - IL151 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veritiv Operating Company - NJ036 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charles Neely Corporation 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Childress Gin and Elevator Company 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Stone Construction, Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE ECC:EC254 - EC254-Van Buren, AR-0300 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peco Foods Inc.-Feedmill 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arkansas Children's Hospital 3,946 FTE
CITY-NEAR LITCX0UPS LIT - UPS 3,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - LIT1 2,510 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock 2,500 FTE
NAT-TCR Alton location 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 779 - Riverhead 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Pole Company, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Honolulu 455 Kalewa St 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phoenix-N-Peace #1 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vineland 6752 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schaefer Systems - Lodi, CA 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covanta Babylon, Inc. 44 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.